Who better to predict the American Presidential race than a bunch of non-politically correct, completely representative of their parents, 9 year-olds?

With the election only 7 days away, I wanted to take a different spin on the election. The talking heads, political pundits and Joe/Josephine the Plumbers across the country have been going at it full force, with their theories and polls as to who will win come Tuesday, November 4th. People in Ohio, Florida and Indiana matter much more than the rest of the population and the candidates themselves are feeling a little of the last stretch stress – with poll numbers not looking good, McCain has resulted to name-calling – calling Obama “The Redistributor” and “Socialist;” people in his camp calling Palin a “Rouge Diva.” In all the craziness surrounding this, the most historical campaign in United States history, CNN, FOX News, the Drudge Report or Politico can pack it in and go on vacay for the next couple of days. The kids already picked the next President of the United States:

Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President has accurately picked the next President of the United States four out of the last five elections, and this election year the kids picked Barack Obama. With a record number of votes, over 2.2 million, lodged on Nick’s internet voting, Obama edged out John McCain 51% to 49%.

Of course it’s cute and great- little kids participating in democracy, yay! – but more so, the vote says a lot. Kids don’t have to be politically correct, they can say/vote however they want. If they don’t want to vote for Obama because he is black or McCain because he is old, they don’t. Plus kids are like 24 hour sponges – they soak in and absorb everything around them, often times becoming what they see. At age 10, if your parents were Republicans, what did you consider yourself? If you responded “Independent”…then you were either a child genius or very strange.

Okay, okay, the polling size was only 2.2 million, and we are talking about a portion of the population that watches Spongebob religiously and is asleep by eight. But the 2 percentage point differential should not go unnoticed.

Final thoughts- Everyone relax, turn off your TVs, close the newspapers and rest your eyes from all that blog reading. The kids got this one.

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